Dutch Pirate Party moves to defend Pirate Bay

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The Dutch Pirate Party is taking steps to protect Pirate Bay from the Hollywood-backed anti-piracy outfit BREIN.

For a while now the Dutch Pirate Party has been running a proxy site for the Pirate Bay, but BREIN is threatening to sue to shut it down

The Pirate Party is not impressed by the threats and responded with a torrent, hosted at The Pirate Bay, telling BREIN to go forth and multiply.

It is sailing up stream. In January, a Dutch court ruled that the ISP Ziggo must block access to The Pirate Bay. The ISPs have appealed the verdict, and affected subscribers have plenty of ways to route around the blockades.

BREIN responded by getting an injunction from the Court of The Hague which instructed the proxy site tpb.dehomies.nl to shut down or face a 1,000 euros a day fine. It is using this injunction to press other site owners to do as they are told.

But the Pirate Party is not caving in. They would rather fight the case in court as the demands were ridiculous.

Pirate Party chairman Dirk Poot told TorrentFreak that a private lobbying organisation should not be allowed to be the censor of the Dutch internet. If it had given in, BREIN could then have tried the same trick on private citizens.

Poot said that unless someone calls them out on their tactics, they will be allowed to continue using them indefinitely.